01.01 Natural Rights

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What do Americans value as the basic individual or natural rights?

Life, liberty, pursuit of happiness

The highway you see here used to be a two-lane road and did not connect to other highways. Over the years, the highway was expanded and new ramps built to connect to other roads and highways. The changes in this image illustrate how government

builds and maintains highways

An example of an important service the government provides to all U.S. citizens is

education

A "limited government" is a government that

has restrictions on the powers of its officials

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration designed this label for the public to be released in 2012. The image of the cigarette warning and a person with an oxygen mask best illustrates how government

is committed to protecting citizen safety

Elections to choose officials to stand for the people's interests in the work of government reflect the principle of

representative government

An example of a location that directly shows government in action is a

school

A government facing protests and demonstrations that are supported by most of its citizens and spread across its territory has lost

consent of the governed

Throughout the city, police officers patrol the streets and neighborhoods of St. Louis. This image (of a police car) best illustrates how government

enforces laws and provides protection for citizens

Rule of Law means that

everyone in a society must follow the laws equally

The Constitution divides the U.S. government into three branches that can each stop, or check, actions of the other branches. This division of power is a result of the principle of

limited government

In 2011, a movement known as Occupy Wall Street began in New York City. The protestors asserted that large corporations had too much influence on government. They blamed this influence for greater financial problems for the majority of Americans, such as the lack of jobs. Which principle do the protestors most likely believe government violated?

representative government


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